These guys are like bookends to a frame story. The Messenger has no role within the story of the play itself, but simply speaks the prologue outlining what the play will be like. The doctor is as well a generic character who only appears to speak...

Everyman is sympathetic in the sense that he represents every person: of mankind in general. He dresses in fine clothes, and seems to have had led a wild and sinful life. Throughout the course of the play, he is told that he is going to die (and...